Like It Never Was

The deeper the secret, the darker the shadow.


Ten years ago, Jolene nearly killed her friend Elizabeth in a gruesome accident. And no one has any idea. Not even Elizabeth.


Jolene has been trying to outrun the guilt ever since, wandering from place to place and career to career. So she's shocked when, after her latest move, she runs into the very person she's been trying to avoid for ten years.


Elizabeth still lives with scars from the accident. And she's still clueless about what happened that fateful night.


Or is she?


As the two women rekindle a friendship, Elizabeth's increasingly disturbing behavior makes Jolene wonder if it's her own guilt stalking her-or Elizabeth finally exacting her revenge.

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Published Jul 2, 2024

316 pages

Average rating: 6.04

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Andrea-The Shelf Life Books
Jul 03, 2025
8/10 stars
Jolene is a high school senior, and at the end of the year she decides to play a prank on her “frenemy”. Jolene never thought that Elizabeth would become so badly hurt, that she would wear the scars of that dark road for the rest of her life. Jolene never confessed and was never suspected of what she had done, as she creeped away from the horrific scene that night.

Now that Jolene is thirty, she still hears her guilt from that night internally. She decides to move to Berkley, California for a new job to become a personal Assistant to a professor. She particularly loving her improve class, until the instructor introduces a new person to the class. Jolene knows those scars immediately, it is Elizabeth.

As the classmates rekindle their friendship for years ago, Jolene starts to think that Elizabeth may know more then she thought about that night.

This one was a wild ride to say the least. I love the dark twisty turns we took and the way that the ending made me want more. The only thing that made it a tad bit hard for me to read was the “teen like” words that she was using for the adult Jolene. “samesies and indeedy”. I couldn’t take Jolene serious when she did that. Other than that… GOLD!! This is my first book by Faith Gardner, but I would love to read more. I would diffidently add this to your TBR.
Tinsleykait
Aug 05, 2024
8/10 stars
Absolutely loved this book. Twists and turns I never saw coming. I wish there was an epilogue to find out what happens to Jolene!

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